Out of this world; across the Himalayas to forbidden Tibet

New York: The Greystone Press, 1950. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Hardcover. Fair. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Newspaper clipping pasted to fep. Signed on fep. Gift inscription (not from author) on half-title, Cover has wear and soiling. Slightly cocked.. 320 p. illus. part col. ) ports. (part col. ) col. maps (on lining papers) 22 cm. Illustrations, From Wikipedia: "Lowell Jackson Thomas, Jr. (born October 6, 1923) is a film and television producer who collaborated with his father, the reporter and author Lowell Thomas, on several projects before becoming an Alaskan State Senator and later the third Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1974 1978). He graduated from the Taft School in 1942 and went on to Dartmouth College, before joining the United States Army Air Corps. Invited with his father, Lowell Thomas Sr., by the Tibetan government to make a film there in 1949 with the hope that the their reports would help persuade the U.S. government to defend Tibet against the Chinese. The trip lasted 400 days, and the father and son were the last Westerners to reach Lhasa before the Chinese. CBS did not broadcast the resultant film, Expedition to Lhasa, Tibet, until years later, but his book about the expedition, Out of This World, published in 1950 became a bestseller."